Senior HR Business Partner

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Job reference 319979
Senior HR Business Partner

Competitive salary plus £4,800 Car allowance, fully family Healthcare, 18% annual bonus potential with 27.5 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, increasing with years served.  
Permanent, Full time 

This role covers the Southeast region, you will be expected in the Gatwick or Medway office 2/3 days per week. You will also have ad hoc travel requirements around the Southeast region to suit business needs.

Through creativity and collaboration our Strategic Business Partner team plays a pivotal role in driving employee engagement, organisational success, and fostering a positive work environment. Within our extensive team there are countless projects and initiatives that advance your career and personal growth. 

Have you got excellent relationship and stakeholder management skills gained in a senior HRBP role? Can you juggle multiple priorities across a complex organisation? If so, we would love to hear from you. We are looking for a Senior HR Business Partner to join the HR Operations team based in the South.

About the Role

Reporting into the Head of HR South you will partner with the Regional Operations Directors to achieve short-term business targets and the longer-term strategy.

You will also 
•    Develop People Plans, focused on culture and transformational change that are aligned to business goals and adapted for changing needs. 
•    Provide informed HR consulting to stakeholders to ensure that business and people plans and priorities are aligned Utilise relevant data driven metrics. 
•    Coach and line manage 1 Business Partner.
•    Lead and support on change management projects and proactively engage with trade unions.
•    Mitigate risk and diffuse potential conflict particularly around the deployment of change activities.
•    Support and coach senior leaders and Business Partners in the management of significant IR/ER issues
•    Collaborate with the Regional Leadership Team to ensure the successful deployment of our people processes centred around compensation, engagement, performance management, talent, and succession. 
•    Advocate and sponsor the use of the full suite of HR service offerings, acting as customer voice, role model and facilitator to ensure business adherence to. 

About You
To truly excel in this role, you will possess, and be able to evidence, the skills and experience listed below:
•    Trusted advisor, able to influence and build relationships with senior stakeholders to effectively challenge and build.
•    Resilient and tenacious and to think critically and logically.
•    Strong HR technical experience including current employment law.
•    Experience managing a challenging IR climate.
•    Change management experience and supporting the deployment of change.
•    Deep understanding of business and commercial challenges and future business strategy and how these impact on the customer. 
•    CIPD qualified desirable

Extra Benefits

•    RMG Share Schemes - partnership and matching share offer
•    Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave
•    Discounts and offers - there are more than 800 offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills*.
•    Supportive and generous company sick pay
•    Your Wellbeing - you and your family have 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life. From your physical and mental health to financial and social support and advice. It’s free, and it’s for everyone.
*Available only to perm employees

Next Steps

The next stage of the selection process will be a face to face/virtual interview consisting of competency based and role specific questions. 

Trust forms the foundation of everything we do in Royal Mail. We want to be transparent about what kind of qualities we are looking for and build trust from the very beginning of your journey with us. The first step is your interview, and we mean ‘your’ interview. We want to give you the opportunity to shine. To enable you to do this, we will provide you with your interview questions ahead of the interview taking place. This will allow you time to prepare, and ensure you have your best examples in mind. Royal Mail Group values both trust, and our people. 
 

We don’t expect every candidate to meet the full criteria for the role. If your experience looks a little different from the job requirements, but you feel you have the relevant skills to bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you. 

Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve. 

We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.

We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.

For more information on Royal Mail Group and our values please click here: https://www.internationaldistributionsservices.com/en/about-us/

Closing Date: Sunday 3rd November. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.

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